[gamblor956]

Developers these days get paid 2-3x as much as lawyers (until the later stages of a lawyer's career), so your 2-man startups appear to be starting with significantly less funding.

If you mean the choice is between a team of 3x developers and 1x lawyer vs 3x developers a designer and a salesperson, the former will win. Design matters very little at the earliest stages, and there's nothing for the salesperson to sell so they are most likely going to make promises to potential customers the developer's can't meet. And if they get any traction, CA or the EU will crack down on them for any privacy violations, which will kill the startup. Meanwhile, the former will chug along until they have a viable product that satisfies regulatory constraints, and acquihire the latter.

The days of regulatory arbitrage as a viable business model are over. There will be no more Ubers and AirBnBs. Governments have caught up to that scam and are significantly more willing to crack down on that now.

[brianwawok]

> Developers these days get paid 2-3x as much as lawyer

hhahahahahha

Not all of us live in the bay ;)

Also my bay layer was $450 an hour, have never met a developer that cost me that.

> The days of regulatory arbitrage as a viable business model are over. There will be no more Ubers and AirBnBs. Governments have caught up to that scam and are significantly more willing to crack down on that now.

that is pretty good too. Keep up the comments, this is a riot.